sex workers

Forced into sex work at a young age, Karnataka’s Manjula now works to help hundreds of sex workers get voter IDs, Aadhaar cards, and more. She also helps them fight violence and abuse.

Sandhya Nair got an opportunity to study at the University for Peace in Costa Rica thanks to Kranti — an NGO run by Robin Chaurasiya and Bani that provides shelter, education and opportunities for daughters of sex workers. Here’s her journey.

Bengaluru-based Shanthi Muniswamy was a sex worker battling depression and discrimination before Aravani Art Project changed her life.

Under their VaxNow initiative, the CovidActionCollab conducted camps for women sex workers, transgenders and their families, offering general health counselling, mental health support, screening for non-communicable diseases, ration kits and free COVID-19 vaccinations across five states.

Golden Heart Foundation in Pune came into being because of seven friends who started two community kitchens and skill development centres to help marginalised women.

Abhijeet Pokharnikar, a student of Bachelors in Computer Application in Pune, started 'Dada Chi Shala' during the lockdown to ensure that children of sex workers, Banjaras and those working at brick kilns continue their education

When the COVID-19 lockdown left sex workers in Maharashtra’s Bhiwandi facing starvation, Dr Swati decided to leverage the Make-In-India spirit to empower them with an income.

“The city I left as a young boy had changed. I came back to poverty, apathy, and a general sense of disillusionment. No one should go to bed at night on a hungry stomach. When I meet my maker I need to have my answers ready and be able to look at him and tell him I did all I could to make a difference,” he says.

Daughters are expected to join their mothers as sex workers and sons become pimps often selling his own mother or sister. Read how Rambhau Ingole is ending this horrifying reality in red light areas of Nagpur.

I am in the heart of North Mumbai’s lesser-known red-light district where underworld crime syndicates run prostitution rings. This is where spine-chilling and heart-wrenching stories come alive.